Beaver Duty

Beaver Duty

Permission denied: A story of self-service

No access is better than least privilege access.

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Matt
Jun 18, 2025
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One of our product owners just decided that we need to collect the list of public holidays from the government website. He wants to build a dashboard to anticipate sprints when the engineering productivity will drop due to people taking prolonged leaves.

I want to question how impactful this initiative is for the business. And the priority. We just had a…

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